# Kukeng
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 古坑 (Gǔkēng) Wade–Giles romanization: Ku³-kʻêng¹.

### Proper noun

Kukeng
* Alternative form of Gukeng
** 1970, General Report of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 45, column 2:A small-scale bamboo shoot processiing plant has been set up at Kukeng, Yunlin county under the Accelerated Rural Development Program.
** 1995, Anthony Hyde, chapter 10, in Formosa Straits‎, 1st edition (Fiction), Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 107:Finally we crossed over the Choshui River. I guessed that the truck had been following was headed for Kaohsiung, a huge seaport at the southern end of the island, but I turned off and went into a small place called Huwei. That was part of the plan. Laurie never went there. The big car would be noticed, but nobody actually knew who it belonged to. I took a break, bought some things. Then I crossed back under the freeway, zigzagged along minor roads, and came into Kukeng from the south.
** 1999 September 27, “Fierce aftershock raises death toll”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 August 2009, Front Page, page 1‎:The quake also caused a landslide in Yunlin County's Kukeng (古坑) Township, burying two vehicles carrying a family to Tsaoling (草嶺) village. Four individuals, two dead and two seriously injured, were pulled out from the pile of rocks by a navy rescue team and sent to a hospital in Touliu.
** 2004 June 1, “All the Coffee in Kukeng”, in Taiwan Today‎, archived from the original on 04 October 2022:Tea may well be Asia's drink but coffee is catching up fast--even in an area renowned for its tea cultivation, such as central Taiwan's Kukeng Township. In Yunlin County's Kukeng--a vertiginous mountain village of 35,000 inhabitants--the main crop is oolong tea.
** 2015 December 19, Ted Chen, “CTBC Financial leads charity drive for disadvantaged children in Light Up A Life campaign”, in Taipei Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 July 2018, Business, page 13‎:Koo made the remarks at a commencement ceremony for the charity drive, where the foundation lit a 17-meter Christmas tree. The event featured a violin performance by a class of elementary school students from Huashan Elementary School (華山國小) in Yunlin’s Kukeng Township (古坑), who were able to pursue their interest in music with the help of the foundation.
** 2018 April 18, Renée Salmonsen, “Taiwan Town Brand Awards event commends local development”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 18 April 2018, Society‎:The top TTBA awardees are as follows: […] Silver Medal Kukeng Township in Yunlin (古坑鄉公所)
** 2022, Chang Chin-Sung et al., “Effects of age and gender on body composition indices as predictors of mortality in middle-aged and old people”, in Scientific Reports‎, volume 12, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:A total of 2,208 subjects were selected using a step by step, stratified systemic cluster sample of households, where two townships in Yun-Lin County (Douliou and Kukeng) were randomly selected in the first sampling step.
** 2022 May 31, Li Hsun Tsai, “How can Taiwanese specialty coffee reach the international market?”, in CommonWealth‎, archived from the original on 31 May 2022‎:There were a few scattered coffee-producing areas around Taiwan a decade ago, the most well-known being Kukeng in Yunlin and Tungshan in Tainan.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Kukeng.